Abstract: In the past few decades, the increasing mobility has greatly challenged traditional definitions of city, society and the nation-state and pushed people to rethink about how different forms of mobility have reconstructed the internal structure of society. Between "stable oriented" and "fluid oriented" understandings of city, urban governance falls into a tension between closure and openness. With the arrival of "mobile society", the dominant regional governance shows its limits. It is also gradually challenged by mobility governance. Is mobility reconstructing the formative condition of urban governance in today's China? Can mobility governance become an alternative to regional governance? We need discuss and reflect on which kind of urban governance can respond to economic and social challenges more effectively in the changing social reality and multiple governance methods.

Key words: regional governance, mobility governance, urban social governance, controversy on governance